Well, I have to say, that I thought that the smallest box purchased at a store was eight. I know that I’ve seen smaller boxes at restaurants for the kiddie coloring pages on the back of the placemat, but those were three or four crayons in a box.

Please let Tarra be doing this to allow both Ellie and Pumpkin to get names they don’t hate. I would really like to see Tarra be the perfect one not because she’s the favorite, but also because she looks out for her sisters.

Of course The Perfect One looks out for her sisters I’m not sure why you’d question it. But honestly, they are in no real peril here. Temporary names they don’t like? Please. Now, if the mall gets attacked by mutant half-gladiator-half-alligator super-terrorists, the sisters all know they can count on Tarra to save them.

They need to earn the right to choose their own names as she has. Letting them have nicknames that they hate is a vital lesson of which she would never deprive them.

I’m gonna take a Stab in the dark here(get it STAB :P) an say anise juniper,cinnamon an ellie got into a fight an tarra slipped a sharp object in an watched them try an stab each other before strolling in an breaking it up an in the process broke someones bones or stabbed someone in the face “on accident” an thats how 1 sister ended up with the glass eye.

At least you guys are better off than me. I went from super-middle-child, to the baby, to being the only one left to carry on the family name with parents, to being father less, and now, while an adult, stranded in the middle of a snowstorm (at least having the decency to not be a burden upon the undertaught police force in terms of wintery emergency lessons) as an orphan…

So….

Mr. Blue reaches into That one’s icon and takes the glass of wine and drinks from it not slowly, not quickly, but just not right either.

phahhh. That’s the stuff.

Mr. Blue hands the glass back to That one, rather nonchalantly, and just goes back to making comments.

So, yeah, it’s me and my sister now. She’s now the oldest, and I’m now the youngest.

This was a well put-together operation, complete with code names an’ everything, before youse girls had to start squabbling about who gets what name. Next year, I swear, I’m takin’ all your code names from old G.I. Joe episodes. You’re complain’ about “Mr. Yellowish-Red?” Next year you’re “Dial-Tone.” You complainin’ now? Huh?

But all other colors are not subservient to rainbow. It’s Mr. White that they are subservient to, as White light is the presence of all colors. Every art student, philosopher, optical scientist and a few internet dorks know that. Given the mis-perception of bent light via prism, it can be an understandable mistake.

Look, we all know that the color wavelength can be broken when light is split up through a refractory process.

Look at the Rainbow. Especially since you need a rain storm to have one most of the time. So, each rain drop is a tiny, portable, prism that isn’t glass. (This statement is not to be taken as all prisms are wet. therefore, Paramounting the Camel and it’s Parent Company, We Make Films, are not responsible for the statements made by the cast, characters and/or audience members. Or for that matter, what the machines are feeding us since we are in the Matrix. Do not eat things that are not food, that’s what Paramounting the Camel has to say.)

Well, refracting is only one way of splitting light. Light hitting a surface and part being absorbed and part being reflected is another, which is arguably more common in everyday life (though maybe less so as we surround ourselves with more and more electronic screens).

The best way I can think of explaining it is additive color involves a white wall in the dark and subtractive involves a pane of glass in front of white light.

Shine all the colors of light on the wall and you get white light. Put various filters in front of the glass, and eventually you’ll get black. In this instance, since we’re already talking about crayons and subtractive coloring is the primary way you mix colors for crayons, paints, and other artistic endeavors, I was figuring subtractive would be more appropriate. Hence, the sum of their parts would be “black.”

…I guess something filtered through my ears when Alex would start on about his art.

She has a harder job than that. Traffic cones don’t have to fight temptations to get out of line to chase after that guy or refill her flask. On the other hand, they do have a harder time moving when the line moves…

She thought it was a real Communion line, but turns out it was a line to take your picture by “The Buddy Christ” prop from the movie Dogma, and she was hitting on the statue when they brought it in, so wouldn’t intentionally stand in line again.

To be fair, I doubt I could tell the difference if I had her blood alcohol level either.

Me too, I can only hope that the dialuoge was changed since the last strip, but alas, I feel that the spice girls joke was circulating as soon as we found out that Ellie was not Mr. Lavender’s given name.

First, Pumpkin wants to be Mr. Rainbow. Rusche, you totally are just going to keep baiting us with this making us wonder about her sexuality. The part where she just wants to be the boss is funny though.

Second, pops apparently has a faulty box of crayons if he only has six and none of the really good colors. And why is there a crayon called Brunette?

Third, is Juniper Mr. Rainbow? She’s the only one missing after all.

Fourth, the girls must have gotten into quite an argument over naming themselves for their to be hospital bills. I’m guessing this is when eyes were lost.

Fifth, I just noticed the page title and had to read the last few panels again to see that, yes, Tarra gets what Tarra wants. I’m wondering if Poppy there is just a bit loony and just doesn’t see the problem with her changing from Brunette to Redhead.

And finally, I just realized that ‘Poppy’ got a double-dose of the culinary names. Good job, Rusche.

I don’t think that the arms are in quite a position for a fear response as suggested. Both palms are up, neither of them are pointed outwards in a defensive stance. And the fingers are pointed towards Mr. B’s face, not away.

I mean, look at “Ps–“, wait, that movie isn’t in the same rating… um…. maybe we can look at “Monsters vs. Aliens”. At least we don’t have to worry about a motel on the side of a road with a huge house overlooking it where Mother is always watching.

What I’m also curious about, is that it seems that everyone expects less than formal behavior from Tarra. We know that she can handle the others when it comes to not getting her hair cut, but does that necessarily mean that she’s as material as the worst of the girls?

It does seem that the bank robbery may be an instance that counts against her, but she was, as far as the laws in my state are concerned, acting within the bounds of a citizens arrest in subduing the perpetrator of the criminal action.

Mr. Blue now waits for the “Law and Order” bumper music, and the address of the place where the altercation occurred as well as the time before Detectives Green and Briscoe appear.

Well, I suspect if you were to take each post you’re talking about regarding Tarra’s behavior and run it through the list of cognitive biases, you’d find that there are different reasons for different posters.

All of us react negatively to different sisters (Juniper and Cinn are the two that irritate me), and some people react negatively to Tarra. As such, they’re going to want to see worse in her. Next you’ve got people caught by the bias that too much good states that something bad’s going to happen (don’t recall the name, but the classic example is the belief that if you just flipped heads 10 times with a fair coin that tails is more likely for the next flip). There’s also the bias or tendency to explain unexplained bits in the behavior of others by filling in how we’d act in their shoes.

I suspect there are a whole lot of other possibilities, those are just the biases that come to mind off the top of my head. But remember the biases go both ways, and I suspect both the positive and the negative biases will find themselves wrong by the time the story’s over.

And we see our unlikely intrepid hero, Zaphod Beeblebrox get shot down by Mr. Redhead while standing in line at a local Publix store. Grumbling, he walks to what looks like a billboard cleverly disguised as a spaceship, when in all reality it’s a spaceship poorly disguised as a billboard.

After hastily reaching orbit above this miserable looking mud ball, Zaphod Beeblebrox feeds in the telephone number that Mr. Rainbow gave him, with a strange look and breath that could light someone’s fire, Maybe Toothless, but that’s another part of the story. However, when multiplying by six times seven times that phone number, the evil universe where Tarra destroys the galaxy has turned into a hunk of cheese and William Riker’s trombone.

Is that a Hitchhiker’s quote? I keep meaning to read through the whole thing but am only through the first book.

I was actually thinking of the animated Tick TV series. In a pre-show item one one episode he & Arthur were being interviewed and the interviewer was asking him about his powers and eventually asked, “Can you destroy the Earth?” The Tick’s response was, “Egads! I hope not! That’s where I keep all my stuff!” (possibly that quote should’ve had several more !’s, as the Tick is quite emphatic about, well, kind of a lot).